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Visually stunning and thematically ambitious but otherwise weak and disappointing. An overly complicated plot seems intended to distract the audience from the forgettable characters and the filmmakers' unwillingness - or inability - to answer any of the questions they pose. To add to the frustration, the movie attempts to have it both ways, both playing up its relationship to Alien and denying it.

Bunk. Hi tech 'Alien' franchise wannabe. Do crew members ever read a science fiction novel? You don't put your hand out to a slimy tentacle emerging from gooey black liquid mysteriously filling the chamber you just entered. And what's with the alien technology travel mug canisters? The spaceship they flew away on had a resemblance to the one found on the planet where the best of the Alien film series began. A redeeming factor: Noomi Rapace as Elizabeth.

Prometheus is a awesome movie and a misunderstood one. Every franchise has a origin, the "Alien" franchise starts here. I think the backlash was that people were expecting a horror, not a world building, philosophical science fiction. The first 2/3's of the movie was awesome, solid 9/10. The acting was great, cinematography gorgeous and it raised some really interesting questions. However, the last 35 minutes felt rushed and the logic kind of collapsed and got lost in itself repeating the same loop over and over but this doesn't make it boring! The last half hour was intense and had (SPOILER) the infamous C-Section scene, perhaps one of the best scenes in the franchise. I can see why many of the fanboys were pissed when this originally came out, but 5 years later I think it's a wonderful sci-fi film with great concepts, stunning visuals and a hit return for Ridley Scott. Alien Covenant (May 21 2017) has become my most anticipated movie this year and I have !HIGH! expectations. Im hoping for a movie on par with the original Aliens and I think Mr. Scott will deliver.

Pretty much this movie gets you thinking and you will search the Internet for answers.

1 The first scene is showing that the engineers will sacrifice them selves to create life on other planets.

2 The movie takes place on planet LV223 not the original Aliens planet LV426.

3 It has been kind of hinted by Ridley Scott that the reason the engineers are wanting to kill Earth is because Humans have done something to make them angry it has been hinted that the event was the sacrifice of Jesus.

4 It has also been hinted that there are 2 different factions of engineers one group that wants to destroy Humans and the other group wanting to save Humans this hints that the engineer craft in Prometheus was sabotaged by the faction that wants to save Humans and explains that the engineer that was awakened was part of the faction that hate Humans this is why he kills everyone.

5 The black goop is triggered by Human emotions not by environmental change notice the goop did nothing when David the android came near it.

This movie left me asking questions and looking for answers not sure if these are false but supposedly this was from a interview with Ridley Scott. Love watching this over and over again. Also it has been hinted that Charlize Theron's character was a android also.

=SPOILERS= What I don't get is: 1- If the Engineer that tried to fly away to Earth to kill us humans exit the ship and get killed, what did we see fossilized on the chair in Alien? 2- If the Engineers created us, then, what created all the other living organisms? And what about "Evolution"? 3- Maybe they evolved, but why do the vases turn into eggs? 4- How did the Engineer that was in the crashing ship survive? He (or she) fell from halfway into space! 5- How did the alien ship not break apart when it fell? Might be made out of a material we don't know of, but still.

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Final report of the vessel Prometheus. The ship and her entire crew are gone. If you're receiving this transmission, make no attempt to come to its point of origin. There is only death here now, and I'm leaving it behind. It is New Year's Day, the year of our Lord, 2094. My name is Elisabeth Shaw, last survivor of the Prometheus. And I am still searching.